8-21-07 Google it

Originally posted August 21, 2007 on my other blog, http://360.yahoo.com/maxwell_woods

Just to see what I would find, today I googled "peace corps bulgaria blogs." And surprisingly, this blog appears on the first page, just seven down the list. If you try "peace corps blogs bulgaria," even more surprising, this blog comes up number three, on the first half of the first page. To see where this led me, I then tried just "peace corps blog," leaving out Bulgaria. I'm not on the first page, but page five. Still, considering that there are over two million google results, number 47 on the list seems pretty high. I don't understand google's algorithm for ranking search results, people must actually be reading what I write. Though, oddly, the link doesn't go directly to the front page, but takes you to a blog posting from a few weeks back.

Now that I know people are reading, I had better be sure to spell check carefully, and to keep listening to that "Grammar Girl" podcast for helpful writing tips. Of course, I also have my own personal Grammar Girl and editor - my mother.